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The Class of 1965 entered the Military Academy in July 1961. As cadets, they received a traditional West Point education but also studied new fields such as computers and nuclear physics. Upon graduation, members of the class received numerous national scholarships, including one Rhodes scholarship. During the Vietnam War members of the class received no less than one Medal of Honor, four Distinguished Service Crosses, one Air Force Cross, 94 ...

A random poem, written on a birthday years before, finds a new life when a series of interrelated profiles come together in a most unexpected way. This is what constitutes A Walk in the City, writer/poet Thomas Porky McDonald?s New York City travelogue. A compilation of pieces written originally for an internal website at his workplace in New York City transit, this volume shares brief, yet effective vignettes on a number of various sites in t...

How and when did accepted music notation come about? How many centuries did it take for a musician to imagine a melody and be able to write it down?

The Class of 1965 entered the Military Academy in July 1961. As cadets, they received a traditional West Point education but also studied new fields such as computers and nuclear physics. Upon graduation, members of the class received numerous national scholarships, including one Rhodes scholarship. During the Vietnam War members of the class received no less than one Medal of Honor, four Distinguished Service Crosses, one Air Force Cross, 94 ...

Blow the layers of dust off your 1940's mad scientist manuals. Remember when a rare disease could only be cured via spinal fluids that would render someone dead while saving another's life? Remember when beakers of colourful fluids frothed and bubbled until a super potion was brewed to (im)perfection? Remember when professors were barred from their universities for illegally experimenting on human subjects, to then become hell-bent on seeking ...

Provides insight into the works of the practically unknown aeronautical engineer, who worked at Voisin and Citroën.

The United States is at a crisis point. The economy is crumbling. Dysfunction in Washington is rampant. A remarkable Vision that prescribes the remedies. The 20/20 Vision charts the course of action to: the America our forefathers built for our children an America safe and secure from war and terrorism an America with a small, limited federal government an America free of deficits and crushing debt a just, simplified tax proposal free of burea...

I'm Reading About Alaska is a 48-page colorful book that helps students learn what makes Alaska unique. I'm Reading about Alaska helps early readers learn fun and interesting facts about Alaska. The colorful illustrations, bold, vibrant art, kid-friendly text and photographs help bring the state to life. I'm Reading About Alaska topics include:, Native Americans, Explorers, Settlement, Statehood, Flag, Capital, Seal, Nickname, Borders, Borough...

5K training plans tailored just for busy moms!Whether you're looking for a convenient way to lose lingering baby weight or just want to get in shape to keep up with your kids, See Mom Run will help you achieve all of your fitness goals. Running strengthens your physical body and empowers the mind, a one-two punch to get you through the overloaded days of motherhood. Run Like a Mother 5K founder (and busy mother of three) Megan Searfoss shows y...

The purpose of this book is for children, teens and adults alike to gain a deeper and broader understanding of adolescent health. All of the terms in this book have been used to describe factors of adolescent health, in hopes that they will be taken into serious consideration to prevent disease. Today, all adolescents are at high risk for many diseases and physical disorders because of the current state of their health and physical education i...

This book provides a comprehensive but concise account of the commonly used herb in Chinese medicine, Schisandra chinensis (¿¿¿). Of the six chapters covering botanical properties to product development, special emphasis is placed on recent pharmacological studies on active ingredients such as schisandrin B and schisandrin, as well as the integrative approach adopted in product development.Readers will be enlightened by the updates on pharmaco...

The only book that examines the lifestyles and motivations of the world's biggest gamblers, the whales, and how the casinos harpoon and beach them. This definitive expos reveals the shrouded world of ultra-high rollers and the Faustian pacts they forge with their hosts, the casino representatives whose job it is to part them from their fortunes. The third edition includes an extensive update about Las Vegas, the "greening" of gambling, the nig...

Spend every day abiding in the presence of our Lord. Living in today's world can be challenging as well as draining. Our fast pace of life, coupled with constant demands to do more, get more, and be more, makes being still and living more deliberately in His presence seem unattainable.

The match was held in the sports facility in Sochi, Russia on the Black Sea coast that had been constructed for the 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games which were held from 7 to 23 February 2014.Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, stepped forward and offered to fund the match. This was the first time ever in history that a head of state has offered to sponsor a World Chess Championship Match.The prize fund ...

(Ab)use of religion as a political means to an end: the achievement of nationalist political goals, analyzing 'how' through which mechanisms this phenomenon has been and still is practiced in South-Eastern Europe.

This book chronicles the history of movie censorship in Virginia from the 1920s to 1960s. At its most basic level, it analyzes the project of state film censorship in Virginia. It uses the contestations surrounding film censorship as a framework for more fully understanding the dominant political, economic, and cultural hierarchies that structured Virginia and much of the New South in the mid-twentieth century and ways in which citizens contes...

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In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than comprising a "master narrative, " these fascinating and varied accounts bring to light the often divergent perspectives, experiences, and institutional cultures that defined the Soviet space program.

This book offers a concise account of US "dual containment" policy towards Iran and Iraq during the 1990s, an overlooked era between the tumult of the liberation of Kuwait and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In particular, it uses a theoretical framework derived from neoclassical realism to examine the impact of domestic US politics and interest groups on policymaking, as well as perceptions of threat derived from two decades of m...

Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography.